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PRO/AH> Japanese encephalitis & other – India (15): (UP) AES due to scrub typhus
Scrub Typhus, Encephalitis -- IndiaBased on a study carried out in 2015, a team led by Dr Manoj V Murhekar, Director of the Chennai-based National Institute of Epidemiology, found scrub typhus to be responsible for acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in 63 percent of patients admitted to the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur [Uttar Pradesh state, UP].The study was repeated last year [2016] by the same team by comparing children with AES and healthy children who are siblings of the Read more [...]
